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Open source, teamwork and mental health: my FOSDEM 2021

For the past 4 years I have participated in FOSDEM, a conference about free and open source software for developers. I love this event. It’s a welcome...

Getting started with Flutter on Ubuntu

This is a guest post authored by Dani Llewellyn. It was originally featured on her blog, we’re reproducing it here with Dani’s permission. Dani is an active...

Hybrid cloud – everything you need to know

Hybrid cloud allows businesses to optimise their costs associated with cloud infrastructure maintenance. It also brings many other benefits, such as business...

AI in telecom: an overview for data scientists

AI in telecom is more complicated due to regulatory and security requirements. With containers setting up an environment for data scientists is much easier.

Portainer recommends MicroK8s for effortless deployment

Learn how MicroK8s enables for the fastest and easiest deployment of container management tool Portainer.

What is Elasticsearch and how are enterprises using it?

What does Netflix, eBay and Walmart have in common? They all use Elasticsearch. What is Elasticsearch? Elasticsearch is a real-time open-source distributed...

Ubuntu Core 20 secures Linux for IoT

2nd February 2021: Canonical’s Ubuntu Core 20, a minimal, containerised version of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for IoT devices and embedded systems, is now generally...

Private home directories for Ubuntu 21.04

Ubuntu has evolved a lot since its early beginnings as an easier-to-use derivative of Debian that catered primarily to the nascent Linux desktop market. Today...


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Want to publish a snap? Here’s a list of dos and don’ts

Technology is a medium that enables us to achieve things in life, ideally in a pleasant way. In the software world, operating systems, programming languages...

Design and Web team summary – 27th January 2021

The web team here at Canonical run two-week iterations. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Web squad Our Web Squad...

Kubernetes and Ubuntu: 2020 roundup

Highlights from Canonical & Ubuntu’s activities, content, and product updates around Kubernetes in 2020.

Compact and Bijou

Snaps are designed to be self-contained packages of binaries, libraries and other assets. A snap might end up being quite bulky if the primary application it...

What is PostgreSQL and why do banking software developers love it?

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system that is known for reliability, feature robustness, and performance. PostgreSQL is...

Productivity corner: editors, editors, editors

Text editors are a curious product. On one hand, they are simple, no-nonsense digital pads for taking notes, without any embellishments or visual styling. On...

Telefonica Brazil selects Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack for industry-leading cloud-based online charging system

13th January 2021 – Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announced that its Charmed OpenStack has been selected by Telefonica Brazil to – in a first for...

PostgreSQL: The PgMiner botnet attacks & Postgres database security

Assuring the security of PostgreSQL and all open source database systems is critical as many learned with the PgMiner botnet attacks in December 2020. Having...


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